Travel Tuesday: La Città di Messina and the Tragic Life of Maria Fraumeni
Yesterday I wrote about Paolo Sulfaro who was born in a town called Curcuraci, a village of the city of Messina. Today I want to share my experience in visiting the city of Messina. This is particularly important to me because Messina is actually the home city of my...
Matrilineal Monday: What 23andMe Told Me About My DNA
DNA, genetics, whatever you want to call it, is a really complicated scientific field. About a year ago I was genetically tested by 23andMe. The wonderful thing about getting this done is that it's easy and it tells you a lot more information about where your family...
Military Monday: Paolo Sulfaro, Travel and The Great War
I am very excited to present my research on Paolo Sulfaro, my great-grandfather, who was born on the 25th of October, 1882 in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Italy. He is very obviously the star of my family tree. Just take a look and see what I have found about his life!...
Census Sunday: Hardy’s Untraceable Irish Roots
Genealogists researching their ancestors in the United States have very few records at their disposal in comparison to Italian records. Their greatest source is the census. I freely admit that I am a novice genealogist when it comes to American genealogy. But I would...
Surname Saturday: Are We Related? Rapisarda
Every Saturday I discuss one surname. I will talk about the people in my family who belong to this name and the places they have lived. If you happen to have one of these surnames in your family tree please, please, please, let me know in the comments! As a...
Friday’s Faces From The Past: Margherita Musarella
Following on from last week's Friday's Faces From The Past, I will be focussing on Ignazio Stagno's wife, Margherita Musarella. In the above photograph she is standing on the far left. She is the mother of my grandmother, Maria Stagno, who is the little girl standing...
Thankful Thursday: The Morbid but Useful ‘Find A Grave’
Anybody who is in the genealogy community knows that Find A Grave recently released their first iPhone app. As appreciation I thought I'd write a little thank you post, for all the times that Find A Grave has helped me, and encouraged me to think beyond the...
Those Places Thursday: Helena, Arkansas
While I am of Italian descent, my husband is very much of American descent, and given that the United States is my new home I would be cutting my genealogical research short if I limited myself to the research of my own family. Please don't be too judgmental in my...